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Automorphisms of cellular divisions of $2$-sphere induced by functions with isolated critical points
Anna Kravchenkoa, Sergiy Maksymenkob a Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine
b Institute of Mathematics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Abstract:
Let $f:S^2\to \mathbb{R}$ be a Morse function on the $2$-sphere and $K$ be a connected component of some level set of $f$ containing at least one saddle critical point. Then $K$ is a $1$-dimensional CW-complex cellularly embedded into $S^2$, so the complement $S^2\setminus K$ is a union of open $2$-disks $D_1,\ldots, D_k$. Let $\mathcal{S}_{K}(f)$ be the group of isotopic to the identity diffeomorphisms of $S^2$ leaving invariant $K$ and also each level set $f^{-1}(c)$, $c\in\mathbb{R}$. Then each $h\in \mathcal{S}_{K}(f)$ induces a certain permutation $\sigma_{h}$ of those disks. Denote by $G = \{ \sigma_h \mid h \in \mathcal{S}_{K}(f)\}$ the group of all such permutations. We prove that $G$ is isomorphic to a finite subgroup of $SO(3)$.
Key words and phrases:
surface, Morse function, diffeomorphisms.
Received: 18.11.2019 Revised: 29.01.2020
Citation:
Anna Kravchenko, Sergiy Maksymenko, “Automorphisms of cellular divisions of $2$-sphere induced by functions with isolated critical points”, Zh. Mat. Fiz. Anal. Geom., 16:2 (2020), 138–160
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